CRAWFORDSVILLE  , a

city and the county-seat of Montgomery county, Indiana, U.S.A., situated about 40 M . N.W. of Indianapolis . Pop . (1890) 6089; (1900) 6649, including 230 negroes and 221 foreign-born; (191o) 9371 . It is served by the Chicago, Indianapolis & Louisville, the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St Louis, and the Vandalia railways, and by interurban electric lines . Wabash College, founded here in 1832 by Presbyterian missionaries but now non-sectarian, had in 1908 27 instructors, 345 students, and a library of 43,000 volumes . Among manufactures are flour, iron, wagons and carriages, acetylene lights, wire and nails, matches, brick paving blocks, and electrical machinery . North-east of the city there are valuable mineral springs, from which the city obtains its water-supply . Crawfordsville, named in honour of W . H . Crawford, was first settled about 182o, was laid out as a town in 1823, and was chartered as a city in 1863 . It was for many years the home of Gen .

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